A Special Operations Group (SOG) personnel was killed in an accidental fire in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday, police said.
A source said the SOG man Nazir Ahmad Ganaie (SPO), of GureeBijbehara, was hit by a bullet after his service rifle went off accidentallyinside the SOG Camp in Kadipora locality of Anantnag town today afternoon.
Soon after the incident, his colleagues evacuated him todistrict hospital Anantnag in an injured condition.
A health official said, “The injured SPO who had bulletinjury in chest was referred to a hospital in Srinagar after initialtreatment.”
A police officer said that the cop was shifted to army’s 92base hospital in Badamibagh Srinagar where he succumbed in the evening.
Ganai, a source said, was till 2002 part of governmentsponsored militia Ikhwan after which he was inducted into police.He used to operate from the same camp.